Making Silk Flowers By Anne Tomlin 9780719842894 (Hardback)

Category

Flower arranging & floral craf

Store

Wordery

Brand

The crowood press

Making Silk Flowers : The Crowood Press : 9780719842894 : 0719842891 : 27 Nov 2023 : This beautiful book explains the art and craft of making the most natural-looking silk botanicals. With clear step-by-step sequences, it considers the details of flowers and demonstrates how you can make immaculate interpretations from a range of silk and millinery fabrics. Anne Tomlin, a passionate and renowned silk flower-making specialist, generously shares her ideas and techniques so this intricate practice can be enjoyed by all milliners, textile artists and designers. Encourages forensic observation of the structures and colours of individual flowers Gives instructions on techniques, including how to paint with dyes and mix colours, stiffen silk, and shape petals and leaves Explains how to capture the detail and essence of more than thirty flowers, from the tiniest common daisy to the complex tightly-pleated English rose Features over 400 beautiful illustrations, including templates for each flow

30 GBP